Crossword Puzzle Number 3868 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. (Norse mythology) Wife of Thor and guardian of the home.
4. A native or inhabitant of Spain.
12. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
15. The sign language used in the United States.
16. Surrounded by hostile forces.
17. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
18. (Welsh) Corresponds to Iris Ler.
20. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
21. Run away.
23. Very light colored.
24. The warhead of a missile designed to deliver an atom bomb.
26. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
27. Congenital absence of the uterus.
29. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
32. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
33. Sturdy annual of Peru.
37. Stupefied by alcoholic drink.
41. Of or resembling algae.
42. Being or moving higher in position or greater in some value.
43. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
44. A flexible container with a single opening.
47. Formerly the basic unit of money in Hungary until it was replaced by the forint in 1946.
48. German philosopher (1776-1841).
51. Similar to the striped mullet and takes its place in the Caribbean region.
53. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
54. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
55. A fee charged for exchanging currencies.
56. A war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy.
60. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
62. Before noon.
63. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
64. Lean end of the neck.
67. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
68. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
72. Type genus of the Coerebidae.
76. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
77. A vast treeless plain in the arctic regions between the ice cap and the tree line.
79. Jordan's port.
80. Being two more than fifty.
81. The system or principles and theory of labor unions.
83. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
84. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
85. Italian architect (1508-1580).
86. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. Minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end.
2. Muslims collectively and their civilization.
3. A blank leaf in the front of back of a book.
4. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
5. 100 penni equal 1 markka.
6. Cause to be more favorably inclined.
7. An impression in a surface (as made by a blow).
8. That is to say.
9. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
10. (Old Testament) Wife of Isaac and mother of Jacob and Esau.
11. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
12. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
13. A narrow way or road.
14. Severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset.
19. Affecting things past.
22. An event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another.
25. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
28. A motley assortment of things.
30. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
31. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
34. A Spanish title of respect for a gentleman or nobleman.
35. Incapable of or resistant to bending.
36. Love intensely.
38. A fencing sword similar to a foil but with a heavier blade.
39. Cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems.
40. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
45. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
46. A river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River.
49. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
50. A tricyclic antidepressant (trade names Imavate and Tofranil) used to treat clinical depression.
52. (voodooism) A spirit or supernatural force that reanimates a dead body.
57. A member of a North American Indian people of the Klamath river valley in northern California.
58. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
59. A sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory.
61. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
65. Large dark-striped tropical food and game fish related to remoras.
66. A set of clothing (with accessories).
69. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
70. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
71. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
73. Made by polymerizing butadiene.
74. The form of RNA that attaches the correct amino acid to the protein chain that is being synthesized at the ribosome of the cell (according to directions coded in the mRNA).
75. A sudden short attack.
78. A unit of pain intensity.
82. A complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists.

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